This is the front page of the Boston and New York edition of the 1839 Anti-Slavery Almanac, which was adapted for the New England states. The cover states that this is the third issue after a leap year and the 63rd after the American Independence and was calculated specifically for Boston and the surrounding area. In the middle of the cover is an image of a woman seemingly being forcibly removed from an area she wasn’t supposed to be with the caption under it reading “What has the North to do with slavery?”.

While the image at the top of the page shows Black scholars being excluded from schools, the bottom text talks about calling for people to essentially shut slaveholders out of society by removing them from their religious congregations, stopping them from becoming agents, being elected to office, and no longer allowing them to give speeches at the anniversaries of benevolent societies. It also asks how any man of sense can ask what the North has to do with slavery when a Virginia senator had said “I have never conversed with a northern gentleman whose sentiments on the subject of slavery gave me any dissatisfaction”.

Black schools were broken up in the free states, thus further excluding freed slaves from gaining any sort of education. This didn't stop enslaved people from trying to have an education, quite the opposite, many enslaved children were learning how to read and write through so-called "hidden" education. In contrast, the bottom text calls for the immediate emancipation of enslaved people in the United States because 30,000 slaves were freed in Antigua in August of 1834. The content below that block of text is testimonies from men who were considered to be the largest slaveholders in Antigua before 1834, none of them were concerned about former slaves harming them for their previous abuses, with one even claiming that he and his family sleep at night with the doors unlocked.